To: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
From: "Stephen J. Turnbull, XEmacs 21.5 Beta Engineer" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Subject: XEmacs 21.5.33 "horseradish" is released.
Organization: The XEmacs Project
* XEmacs 21.5.33 "horseradish" is released.
"horseradish" is the thirty-fourth in the VEGETABLE series.
The successor to XEmacs 21.5.32 "habanero", "horseradish" adds a few
minor fixes and improvements. The Help menu has been reorganized, and
there have been a number of syncs to GNU Emacs which are mostly useful
for supporting syncs of specific packages. The most generally useful
improvement is probably new support for the [remap] syntax in `define-key'.
This is the development line. The current series started with XEmacs
21.5.0 (an alias for XEmacs 21.4.0 "Solid Vapor", the first release in
the current stable line). 21.5 is the code base for introduction of
major new subsystems and fixes to design bugs that experience shows will
introduce instability. So far the main effort has been on improved
support for Unicode, updates to the build infrastructure, and development
of new features in memory allocation.
For general information about XEmacs, the developers, and the user
community, see our home page,
http://www.xemacs.org/
* XEmacs 21.5.33 is "beta" software.
The usual "no warranty" disclaimer (see etc/COPYING, sections 10 and 11)
applies. At this point in time, it is the version that most developers
are using for their daily work. However, it is certain that many bugs
remain and new ones will be introduced as development proceeds. Be sure
to take care to safe your work often and follow a regular backup regime.
* Availability
Anonymous ftp:
ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/xemacs-21.5
See http://www.xemacs.org/Install/ for more information about building
from source.
If you already have a 21.5.32 source tree, a patchkit is available in
xemacs-21.5.32-21.5.33.patch.gz. This does not update .elcs or .infos.
They will be rebuilt when you make XEmacs. If you have an earlier
version, you can repeatedly apply patchkits.
Also, if you don't have the packages yet, see
http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/packageGuide.html.
Mercurial repository:
http://hg.debian.org/hg/xemacs/xemacs-beta
This is a read-only Mercurial repository. To check out XEmacs 21.5.33,
use the command
hg clone -r r21-5-33 http://hg.debian.org/hg/xemacs/xemacs-beta
to create a new Mercurial workspace, or
hg pull -u -r r21-5-33
if you already have a local workspace from Mercurial. To update to the
most recent commits to the official repository, use
hg pull -u -r tip
For more details, see
http://www.xemacs.org/Develop/hgaccess.html .